Representation

The social group of our AS production was left open to interpretation from the audience, as the lone survivor could have been from any social background and his past is left in ambiguity. The effect this gave was that we were allowed to lead the character in any direction we wanted to, the character himself was not presented in a negative light, instead he was represented as enigmatic. He could be seen as a positive character in terms of his fighting off the zombies and knowledge of survival methods. 

Across other media products in the same genre, they utilise a large cast to show an interaction between survivors (The Walking Dead) and convey messages over morality, but in the case of our film our character was a lone survivor so the impressions the audience recieved were purely based upon his mise-en-scene. The category this film fits into is the zombie genre.

Finally the signs we used were the knife and the dead owl. The knife is a symbol for the violence and harm that now rules the digesis of this world, and combined with the dead owl we are given a different signified meaning of survival and that in order to survive death must occur. We can also see the ground to be wildly littered with leaves and unattended, this shows that the world has become abandoned and feral. Furthermore the close up shot signifies the intensity and haste in which the man must act because danger lurks everywhere.